Baltimore is below the Mason Dixon line

It’s ok, he’s got his foot touching it.

“It’s appalling and sad that Senator Van Hollen and the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or empathy for their own constituents,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said at a briefing on Wednesday afternoon.

As one of his constituents I certainly don’t feel like he’s lacking empathy. I’m definitely planning on voting for him again.

Even the administration admits that it will make things more expensive. The “passthrough” of 0.25 in their equation means Americans will pay 25% of the tariff amount. And it’s in the denominator, so if it was 0, the (limit of the) tariff rate would go to infinity, which means no amount of tariff would be effective.

I guess this is a severely watered down use of the word “lynched”, because you’re not alive to be kidnapped after the traditional meaning.

Musk wants to block it, so being against blocking it is the opposite of what he wants.

Wow, now they’re only worth as much as the next 10 largest auto manufacturers combined. Their market cap is completely disconnected from reality. They should not be worth 4 times as much as Toyota.

It’s not illegal, but most government employees work for the executive branch, so you can theoretically be fired for not obeying the chief executive (president). Just like someone at a company can be fired for disobeying the CEO, unless there is actually a law protecting the specific behavior.

How did Trump support the name change in a 2024 executive order if he wasn’t president during any of 2024? I don’t remember Biden signing that order for him.

There’s always inheritance tax, and splitting the fortune with siblings. Eventually someone down the line would only be getting $999 million.

It’s not a link to a sponsor. It’s a YouTube info page about what it means for a video to have the “Contains sponsorship” tag.

“…except as a punishment for crime” -13th amendment

Maybe “former” slave plantation isn’t an accurate description.

That looks abismol.

Those aren’t even real people. Those “usernames” are the names of custom emojis you can use in Twitch chat. Still weird in context, but I can see how it would be even more creepy if you didn’t know that.

Or they try to refill prescriptions that aren’t supposed to be. I got a call from them saying they had contacted my doctor and she wouldn’t let them refill my short term antibiotics, so I should call and fix that so they can give me more that I don’t need.

You can get one of those things without a prescription now

Hate speech in the United States

In a Supreme Court case on the issue, Matal v. Tam (2017), the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no “hate speech” exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment and that the U.S. government may not discriminate against speech on the basis of the speaker’s viewpoint.

It’s not a crime on its own in the US, but if it incites imminent lawless action that can be a crime.

The cars already have decent GPUs to process the camera data for driving assistance features, so someone at the company probably just thought it would be neat to do something with that computing power when it’s not being used for driving.

At least one of those lines goes back on itself at some point, so my assumption is that it’s tracking where each country has been over time.

This is why, as a native English speaker, I just never express my emotions.